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Increase troops in Afghanistan?
A few days ago, the media reported nine US casualties in Afghanistan and that military leaders on the ground are asking for more troops; the joint chiefs said that as the surge worked in Iraq and Iraq is now back to the 150,000 troop level that existed before the surge and that we could in the near future reduce levels even further in Iraq freeing up troop rotations for assignment in Afghanistan. Now Senator Obama has made a trip to the area and says we need to increase troops in Afghanistan. Is this Obama's attempt to show America that he would use military action as President or does he just want us to believe that the eminent increase in troops in Afghanistan was his idea?
I believe that he said that he would try to influence Pakistan to actively pursue the Al Queda training camps and forces located in southern Afghanistan through diplomatic and economic pressure but he would not take the military option off the table (which is kind of what the current administration and McCain have suggested as the method of dealing with Al Queda in Pakistan as well). I applaud Obam for learning that a US President can not publicly remove the military option without lessoning our ability to influence change.
Sorry ... typo ... obviously I meant that Pakistan should pursue Al Queda in southern Pakistan, not Afghanistan.
I believe what Obama advocated for Afghanistan was that we should have never gone into Iraq and we should have continued our pursuit of Osama Bin Laden when he was in Afghanistan and increased troop levels there to capture or kill Bin Laden in order to eliminate Al Queda. I agree that our strategy in the pursuit of Bin Laden failed due to some bad tactical decisions. I agree that Afghanistan needs more troops now (and then) to reduce the threat of the reorganization of the Taliban. I don't agree that we should have never entered Iraq. Hussein himself stated that he continued to project a WMD ability to the world as self defense posture against Iranian aggression and that he called for action against the US as a way of demonstrating his power.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Hello, Less troops in Iraq will not happen! as they are there as a buffer against Iran. Just as the navy is in the Strait of Hormuz. Afghanistan need more UN troops other than Great Britain and the United States on active duty, so this shows that Obama hasn't thought things out in favor of these two great Army's. Personally i wouldn't trust him with my action man.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
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- 1 decade ago
For Obama to say redeploy troops from Iraq to Afghanistan does not make sense from a military sense because our military leaders say they need more troops in Iraq, not less. Increasing troops in Afghanistan is an increase in the war, not a decrease.
- Kiran CLv 71 decade ago
Obama has talked by the increase in troops for Afghanistan before McCain advocated for such a position.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
obama has said for a long time that he supported the war on terror
but Not the war in Iraq.
he even said that he might go to Pakistan.
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what he said was that he would be willing to launch attacks into Pakistan if he knew where Zawahri or Bin Laden where
(with or with out permission from Pakistan)
- catrionnLv 61 decade ago
If we brought home all the troops from everywhere in the Middle East, there would be NO more casualties.
